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When was your last BSOD? I'm betting it was a long time ago

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TheQwerty:
The only BSOD I've seen in the last two years occurred when trying to resume from hibernation - most recently last week, and probably once or twice a quarter.  (Always ks.sys...)-TheQwerty (April 01, 2009, 06:24 AM)
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Iirc, ks.sys is related to kernel streaming sound. You wouldn't happen to have a Creative soundcard in that machine?
-f0dder (April 01, 2009, 09:19 AM)
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To be honest I don't recall.  It started with a Turtle Beach and I believe that's what is still in it, but I may have forgotten swapping it out for a Creative.   :-[

Between it happening so infrequently and my inability to reproduce it reliably, I've never really bothered to investigate the cause.

Lashiec:
About one year ago or something. Only had two BSODs with this machine, both when running ping calling Google in the background (at the time I had several connection problems due to a faulty thingie outside the house), and one of them involved FARR. I suspect the use of the "Break" key to stop pinging might explain that particular BSOD. The fact that mouser is a lousy programmer doesn't help at all ;)

On my old 9x machine, I got a BSOD every time I inserted a CD-ROM into the drive, and let autorun do its job. So I deactivated the function, and the number of BSODs was dramatically reduced.

y0himba:
In February of 2008 when I first received my new computer.  FedEx around here is notorious for their handling of packages, and every time I have a piece of electronics delivered to me with parts like a hard drive, it comes damaged.  I have had to replace every hard drive they have delivered.  Thankfully, all free.  I just received a Netbook and Inspiron for my daughter 2 weeks ago, I replaced the hard drives in both on Monday.  BTW, I am running Vista on all machines except the Netbook, and NEVER have had a problem other than failed hardware due to FedEx.

Gothi[c]:
That sounds plain weird - a crashing usermode program causing a BSOD? Never had that happen O_o

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It's weird, I don't know how either, but it happened. And it has happened before with msvc, though I don't remember if it actually went as far as a bsod last time, but this time it did.
The bsod came 2 seconds or so after the regular segfault msgbox, so there is a small chance it's unrelated, who the heck knows...

Steven Avery:
Hi Folks,

My XP puters have been very stable, last BSOD probably years ago, maybe one or two of minor ones I forget months ago.  As I said in the CleanMem thread, I could get a resource slowdown and lockup on occasion (which I consider different than  BSOD even if it is mandatory reboot, because it is not from system items slashing one another to smithareens) -- and not since some changes and none planned for the future.

Shalom,
Steven

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